Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... attempt to rigidly fix the number of households and clans must , through ordinary human accidents , have failed . The really important unit in the division was the curia , the members of which were bound by re- ligious ties , and had a ...
... attempt to rigidly fix the number of households and clans must , through ordinary human accidents , have failed . The really important unit in the division was the curia , the members of which were bound by re- ligious ties , and had a ...
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... attempt of a few families under the guise of Pythagorean philosophy to seize absolute power , and later torn by party feuds , slave insurrections , and the grossest social abuses , completely broke down . Thus the Achaeans exercised but ...
... attempt of a few families under the guise of Pythagorean philosophy to seize absolute power , and later torn by party feuds , slave insurrections , and the grossest social abuses , completely broke down . Thus the Achaeans exercised but ...
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... attempt in 579 B.C. to settle at Libybacum was frus- trated by the natives and the Phoenicians , and a similar fate befell the Phocaeans at Alalia in Corsica , which they evacuated after a naval battle with the combined Etruscans and ...
... attempt in 579 B.C. to settle at Libybacum was frus- trated by the natives and the Phoenicians , and a similar fate befell the Phocaeans at Alalia in Corsica , which they evacuated after a naval battle with the combined Etruscans and ...
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... attempt to assert the rights of the individual at the expense of the state , nor to limit the power of the state , but only that of its magistrates . The second was the demand for equality of political privileges , and was the cause of ...
... attempt to assert the rights of the individual at the expense of the state , nor to limit the power of the state , but only that of its magistrates . The second was the demand for equality of political privileges , and was the cause of ...
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... attempt to deal with the real source of evil was made by Spurius Cassius , a patrician of the patricians , and personally illustrious by two triumphs . He proposed to reform the public land system by distributing a portion of it among ...
... attempt to deal with the real source of evil was made by Spurius Cassius , a patrician of the patricians , and personally illustrious by two triumphs . He proposed to reform the public land system by distributing a portion of it among ...
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